Boeing CEO Criticizes Washington

By

Jon Ostrower

Updated May 9, 2012 9:29 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON—The head of Boeing Co. on Tuesday expressed frustration with what he said was a lack of business knowledge inside the Obama administration, part of a wider rebuke of political logjams in Washington affecting the private sector.

Jim McNerney, Boeing's chief executive, said the dialogue between the private sector and the administration was challenged because "very few people" in Washington had business experience, though he acknowledged the White House had "reached out" to the private sector...